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That officially ends smolov for the forst time, squat is feeling pretty good although my RH hips being a biaatch still. I followed each of those workouts with hip/glute hammy and upper back work. I will run an eaxtra week of smolov this week leading up to a 3 or 4 day break for holidays. I'll likely hit it twice a day squatting and benching for volume.

Also I ditched the smolov intense cycle for bench, not enough volume and my bench is in the toilet again, hoo fucking ray. Oh well time to get stupid for the holidays and then enjoy a short break.

Feeling pretty strong going into todays workout, plan was to squat 10 triples with my old 3rm. As I stood up with the 30th rep with 350lbs I had to sit back and think how the heck did I complete all that work! LOL the first set was heavy!! as were the last 9. It took some time to complete so I'll have to go back in tonight to finish up more work. Need to pull and might bench also. I did some single leg stuff after but cannot recall weights. Stoked with that effort.